Phthalo Productions
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produce media for organizations dedicated to helping others. I do everything: film, photograph, design, edit, research, report and write. However, nothing beats collaborating with people who care deeply about what they do.
Philms
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e specialize in educational, political and promotional videos. From pre-production to post-production, we’re a one-stop shop. You can check out a sampling of my promotional films, my political videos, as well as the trailers of my narrative and documentary work.
Politics
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e almost always know what’s the right thing to do—the hard part is doing it. Politics aren’t pie-in-the-sky idealism, though. It’s a matter of getting things done and making a difference. When it comes to helping the middle and working class, improving our schools and communities, saving our planet, fostering honesty and trust, and providing a fair shake for everybody, we agree with Barack Obama: Better is good. Better is worth working for. Phthalo Productions produces media (commercials, campaign videos, podcasts) for people who go about this hard, important work with courage and conviction.
Photography
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t’s people that interest me, people’s faces. I specialize in documentary-style portrait photography, often in conjunction with our video projects.
Writing
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or many years, I was a magazine and newspaper journalist, writing long-form news features and essays for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and many other publications—plus the book Slaphappy.
Misc.
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‘ve written and directed two narrative features, a web series, documentaries, and various shorts. Phthalo Productions is a division of Fancy Man Films.